Linux has achieved loading time of 1 second

In the race for the fastest download Linux leader has changed. Now the honorable first place is embedded MontaVista Embedded Linux with the load time of 1 second. For comparison, the average load time of most modern distributions is in the range 20 - 25 seconds.

Fairness it should be noted that this result was not achieved in the serial hardware uses the generic Linux, but on a custom distribution designed for Power-processor architecture Freescale Semiconductor MPC5121e.

In a press release of MontaVista director Jim Ready called the Linux boot time in 1 sec. breakthrough in the development of embedded systems. " Undoubtedly, vendors of desktop and server solutions will look for ways to reduce loading time of their distributions, but for this group of products start time is not a critical factor. Most users are much more important than universally applicable solutions, the presence of the greatest possible number of supported devices and the presence of a pleasant user interface. Ie all the things from which you can easily give up in the autonomous portable devices.

Unfortunately MontaVista company did not provide any additional information concerning methods of testing. As reasonably pointed Linux kernel developer Arjan van de Ven is necessary to clearly define what is load time. If this time the kernel starts, there is 1 sec. not a record - Moblin loads the kernel drivers for 0.6 sec. Another thing to take into account when loading the 3rd level (runlevel 3) with a full stack of glibc / udev / hal, and other extensions. Although in this test Moblin not much would be lost, spending all of about 2 x seconds.

15 July 2009 | core, distribution, download, leader, linux, place, second, time

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